“I always wanna die,” repeats The 1975 frontman Matt Healy eight times during the final chorus of the band’s latest alt-pop ballad, “I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes).” It’s a sentiment that’s become all too common in modern pop music.

Swae Lee makes music for youthful lovebirds who have cousins’ couches to crash on in Brazilian beach towns, just graduated from college and said, ‘Screw it!’ It’s not that his album isn’t soothing and beautiful no matter the setting (confirmed: it is). It’s just that if you happen to be in the right place at the right time, listening to Swaecation, then the music sounds that much more beautiful.

In the summer of 2015, attending Lollapalooza after my freshman year of college, I followed a girl to The Weeknd’s set instead of going to see Paul McCartney. At the time, The Weeknd was still a somewhat-underground sensation, his hazy, hollow sex-tales having recently won over the Tumblr-sphere, but his outcast music was already capable of luring listeners into his heartbreak. Alas, I went to experience the act before it inevitably tidied up. Now, three years later, The Weeknd wants to be dangerous again.

While early work helped accustom fans to his notorious ambition and unique version of anti-lyricism Rich The Kid has mostly failed to garner mainstream attention thus far. Now, courtesy of a shiny contract with Interscope Records, he's fully arrived with a proper LP to back up his monstrous ambitions. The World Is Yours represents a stunning debut from a seemingly destine hip-hop superstar. Evidently, he can hold his own aside the industry’s biggest names. For this reason alone, Rich The Kid deserves the tile of “boss.”

'Lil Boat 2' paints Lil Yachty as an uninspired artist who has already become less enticing by his lonesome, thus forced to lean on brand-name collaborators and easy topics such as jewelery. It often feels as if Yachty is playing a mere curator rolewherein he unites artists (be them unsigned or platinum-selling) and combines styles (mainstream or underground) without ever being forced to take a lead. The fact that he’s basically a guest feature on many of its blooming hits means close to nothing to him — as long as the check is correct.

Symbolically penned to Nakia, Black Panther’s principle love interest within the fictional Marvel Universe, the song’s admitted infatuation proves powerful enough to strip even a superhero of his sensibility, leaving him helpless in his pursuit of the highly-esteemed “Power Girl,” utterly at her will. In this love story, the female has total control.